Another batch of the Balik Probinsya Bagong Pag-asa Program (BP2) beneficiaries are all set to go back to their home province on Friday morning. A total of five families consisting of 24 individuals underwent dispatch procedures at the BP2 depot in Agham Road in Quezon City on Thursday. Upon arrival, the beneficiaries were asked to register, after which, they were given an orientation on the BP2 program. They were also informed of their flight details going to Negros Oriental the following day. Immediately after the swab tests, the beneficiaries were ushered to their sleeping quarters where they will stay until

After being put on hold for a year due to the health pandemic, the annual “Tabu-an” (meeting place) Western Visayas Ilonggo Heritage Cooking Competition will be back on Nov. 26, 2021 with 10 teams participating from various places in Western Visayas. “Tabu-an is a cooking competition held annually with its main objective is to promote the ways of cooking and methods and use of local ingredients of the region,” said advocate Rafael Jardeleza in an interview on Wednesday. Jardeleza is an advocate of the Ilonggo heritage cuisine and the man behind the event. It started eight years ago when six

National Security Adviser (NSA) Hermogenes Esperon Jr. said they will continue the resupply mission to Filipino troops stationed at the BRP Sierra Madre in Ayungin Shoal in the West Philippine Sea (WPS). “We will continue the resupply and we do not have to ask the permission of anybody because that is within our territory,” said Esperon, also chairperson of the National Task Force (NTF)-WPS, in an interview with reporters on Thursday. “We hope that with our protest, they will also heed our calls for them to back off,” he added. The Western Command earlier reported that three Chinese Coast Guard

At least 186 supporters of the New People’s Army (NPA) in Carigara, Leyte will surrender to authorities on Nov. 26 as a result of the government’s intensified effort to rid remote communities of the influence of the communist terrorist group. The military is currently gathering personal information from surrenderers who will take their oath of allegiance to the government in a ceremony in Carigara, said Capt. Kaharudin Cadil, spokesperson of the Philippine Army’s 802nd Infantry Brigade. “Their surrender will block the NPA’s attempts to infiltrate remote communities. In the past months, we have been raising public awareness about the NPA’s